Read the passage and choose the best answer.
If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a disaster. According to several scientists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what his parents expect, and will fail. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children.
However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are ambitious in a sensible way, the child may succeed in doing very well – especially if the parents are very supportive of their child.
Michael is very lucky. He is crazy about music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him 50 kilometers twice a week for violin lessons. Michael’s mother knows very little about music, but his father plays the trumpet in a large orchestra. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling.
Winston, Michael’s friend, however, is not so lucky. Both his parents are successful musicians, and they set too high a standard for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him for every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems quiet and unhappy.
One of the serious mistakes parents can make is to……………..
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Read the passage and choose the best answer.
Organized football games began in 1863. In football, two (23)…………..of eleven players try to kick or head the ball into the goal of the other team. The goal keeper, (24)…………..tries to keep the ball out of the goal, is the only player on the field who can touch the ball with his or her hands. The other players must use their feet, heads and bodies to (25)…………..the ball.
Every four years, football teams around the world (26)…………..for the World Cup. The World Cup competition started in 1930. Brazil is the home of many great football players, including the most famous player of all, Pele’. With his fast dazzling speed, Pele’ played for many years in Brazil and then in New York. People in more than 140 countries (27)…………..the world play football. It is definitely the world’s most popular sport.
Mark the letter to indicate the word whose underlined part that needs correction.
We are in compete with four other companies for the contract.
Combine two sentences into a new one using the given words in brackets.
Finish the second sentences so that it has a similar meaning to the first one.
The problem is so difficult that we cannot solve it.
Mark the letter to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the others.
The two examples given in the passage illustrate the principle that……………..